Planning Blog - 1980's MTV Is Born

Music Television (MTV) The is era was when artists starting competing with each to make promo videos, they were made in a psychedelic manor where the video would show animation and a true image of the band for example Dire Straits do this in their music video "Money for Nothing".

The opening of this video starts off in animation and the animated figure then enter the television which is of the band performing it then contrasts both real life image and animation as the band play animated guitars using special effects we see them wearing certain items of clothing cartoonised.

The arrival of cable TV opens the market for videos being available to the public and once MTV played there first music video in August 1 1981 and this was "video killed the radio star". Nowadays MTV now plays a lot of different forms of media and is now called Media Television.

-Ryan Miles-